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Samuel Chiles Mitchell was president of the University of South Carolina, 1908-1913;
president of the Medical College of Virginia, 1913-1914; president of Delaware College,
1914-1920; professor of history at the University of Richmond, 1895-1908 and 1920-1945;
trustee of the Negro Rural School Fund of the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation, 1908-1937.
The collection contains family, personal, and professional correspondence; an autobiography
by Samuel Chiles Mitchell; and other papers of Mitchell and his family. Included are
letters from his professional colleagues and former students, labor leaders, and newspaper
editors concerning the affairs of various institutions with which Mitchell was connected,
public and higher education in the South, race relations, the education of African
Americans, Jewish charitable activities, Baptist institutions and activities, the
Young Men's Christian Association, labor-management relations and the unionization
of southern workers, the New Deal, and other social and political issues. Family letters
include those from Alice Broadus Mitchell to her mother discussing family life, and
letters of the Mitchell children: Broadus, economic historian and professor at Occidental
College, Johns Hopkins University, and Rutgers University, Socialist, and employee
of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Terry, advertising executive in
Waynesboro, Pa.; George, economist, instructor at Columbia University, and employee
of the Resettlement Administration, Congress of Industrial Organizations, and Southern
Regional Council; Morris, teacher at Ellerbe, N.C., the Park School in Snyder, N.Y.,
Teachers College at Columbia University, and Alabama State Teachers College, and secretary
of the Southeastern Cooperative League in Clarksville, Ga.; and Mary, wife of George
Orr Clifford, businessman of Akron, Ohio, Evansville, Ind., Bala-Cynwyd, Pa., Ilion,
N.Y., and Southport, Conn. Notable correspondents include Edwin A. Alderman, Charles
William Dabney, Virginius Dabney, Douglas Southall Freeman, Howard Odum, and George
Foster Peabody.

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Provenance

Received from Samuel Chiles Mitchell in 1945 and 1946; George Sinclair Mitchell in
1956 and 1960; Broadus Mitchell in 1961; Mary Mitchell Clifford in 1963 and 1977;
and Charlotte Mitchell Frey and Ellen Mitchell in 1998.

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Family, personal, and professional correspondence and other papers of Samuel Chiles Mitchell and his family. Included are letters from Mitchell's professional colleagues and
former students, labor leaders, and newspaper editors concerning the affairs of various
institutions with which Mitchell was connected; public and higher education in the South; race relations; the education of African Americans; Jewish charitable activities; Baptist institutions and activities; the Young Men's Christian Association; labor-management relations and the unionization of southern workers; the New Deal; and other social and political issues.

Family letters include those from Alice Broadus Mitchell to her mother discussing family life, and letters of the Mitchell children: Broadus Mitchell, economic historian and professor at Occidental College, Johns Hopkins University,
and Rutgers University, Socialist, and employee of the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union; Terry Mitchell, advertising executive at Waynesboro, Pa.; George, economist, instructor at Columbia
University, and employee of the Resettlement Administration, Congress of Industrial
Organizations, and Southern Regional Council; Morris Mitchell, teacher at Ellerbe, N.C., the Park School in Snyder, N.Y., Teachers College at Columbia
University, and Alabama State Teachers College, and secretary of the Southeastern
Cooperative League in Clarksville, Ga.; and Mary Mitchell Clifford, wife of George Orr Clifford, businessman of Akron, Ohio, Evansville, Ind., Bala-Cynwyd, Pa., Ilion, N.Y., and
Southport, Conn.

Family, personal, and professional correspondence of Samuel Chiles Mitchell. Included
is correspondence with former students of Mitchell and teachers and administrators
in colleges and universities in the South and elsewhere. These letters discuss the careers of the writers and the activities
and problems of the institutions with which they were associated. There is a substantial
amount of correspondence with persons connected with Delaware College (now the University of Delaware), 1915-1922 and 1929-1930; the University of Richmond, 1920s-1945; Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pa., 1926-1940s; Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va., 1920s; the University of Virginia Medical School, 1921-1924; and the University of South Carolina, 1908-1913.

Also included are many letters from persons engaged in public education in Virginia and other parts of the South. Mitchell helped to found the Cooperative Education Association of Virginia in 1904 and was active in many phases of education in Virginia, including public schools, education of African Americans, and higher education. Major correspondents include George Foster Peabody, J. H. Dillard, Arthur D. Wright, and others connected with the Southern Education Foundation, the General Education Board, and the Jeanes Fund.

In addition to letters about education, there are letters concerning race relations in the United States, Y.M.C.A. activities, Jewish charitable activities, Baptist Church affairs, the labor movement, the New Deal, and domestic and international politics.

Early correspondence includes letters of Alice Broadus Mitchell before her marriage and other Broadus family papers, as well as some papers of the parents of Samuel C. Mitchell. Letters,
1894-1913, from Alice Broadus Mitchell to her mother, Mrs. John A. Broadus, describe
her life in Georgetown, Ky., Richmond, Va., and Columbia, S.C.

Volumes include "An Aftermath of Appomattox--A Memoir" by Samuel Chiles Mitchell. The memoir begins with his boyhood in Tennessee, Mississippi,
and Texas, and ends with a European trip in 1935. Along with the narrative of his
life as a professor and administrator at institutions of higher education, Mitchell
included comments on politics and events of the times, race relations, and social
change. Family members issued 150 mimeographed copies of this memoir in 1954.

Other volumes include a scrapbook containing articles written by Samuel Chiles Mitchell
while on a trip to Europe, with his impressions of various cities and countries; six
pocket notebooks containing engagements, accounts, quotations, and miscellaneous memoranda
for 1923, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1945; the wedding book of Alice Virginia Broadus
and Samuel Chiles Mitchell, 30 June 1891; and their 50th wedding anniversary book,
which contains letters of congratulation, 30 June 1941.

Mostly letters from Broadus Mitchell to his parents. Mitchell wrote about studying and teaching economics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 1920s and 1930s; teaching at Occidental College, Los Angeles, Cal., 1941; working with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, 1944; and other matters. Also included are letters from Broadus's first wife Adelaide
and second wife, Louise Pearson Mitchell, as well as from his children, Barbara (Bobs) and Sidney, in the 1940s.

Letters from Morris Mitchell to his parents about his studies and serving in the United States Army in France before 1920; studying at Peabody College and teaching in Ellerbe, N.C., and the Park School, Snyder, N.Y., in the 1920s; teaching in the Park School and at Columbia University Teachers College in the 1930s; teaching at State Teachers College, Florence, Ala., and engaging in various projects for cooperative living in Georgia and Michigan in the 1940s, including his work as secretary of the Southeastern Cooperative League. Also included are letters from Morris's first wife Grace and second wife Barbara.

Letters from Terry Mitchell to his parents about working in the advertising department of the Frick Company in Waynesboro, Pa. Terry Mitchell was advertising manager at the time of his father's death in 1948. Also included are letters from
Terry's wife Anne.

Letters from Mary Mitchell Clifford to her parents about her education at Sweet Briar College in 1917 and her life in Akron, Ohio; Evansville, Ind.;
Bala-Cynwyd, Penn.; Ilion, N.Y.; and Southport, Conn., after she married George Orr Clifford.

Letters from George Sinclair Mitchell to his parents about studying economics at Johns Hopkins University in the 1920s and at Columbia University in the early 1930s and working for the Resettlement Administration in 1937 and with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1944. There are also letters from George's wife Alice. Also included is a film
entitled
Faces of the South, which apparently was distributed by the Broadcasting and Film Commission of the
National Council of Churches.